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VOL. III. NEW BRITAIN, CONN., SATURD lY, NOVEMBER 26, 1859.
T H E
SISW mWEMJm ICTEES ;
A OONNKUANON or THE
I S R O I ^ T H <SB S O X J T K C -
L. M. GUERNSEY, EdUor and Proprietor,
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I N P A C E.
A track of Moonlight on a qaiet lake,
Wliose small waves on a silver-sanded shore
Whisper of pcace, and with the low winds make
Such harmonies as keep the woods awake
And listening all night long for their sweet sake :
A groen-waved slope of meadow hovered o'er
By angel troop of lilies, swaying light
On viewless stems, with folded wings of white:
A slumberooa stretch of mountain land far seen.
Where the low westering d ly, with gold and green.
Purple and amber, softly blended, fills
The wooded vales, and melts among the hills :
A vine-fringed river, winding to its rest
On the calm bosom of a siormless sea.
Bearing alike upon itx placid breast.
With earthly flowers and heavenly stars impressed.
The hues of time and of eternity :
Such are the pictures which the thought of thee,
O friend, awakeneth, charming the keen pain
Of thy departure, and our sense of loss
Bequiting with the fullness of thy gain.
Lo! on the quiet grave thy life-lwrne cross.
Dropped only at its side, methinks doth shine,
Of tny beatitude the radiant sign !
No sob of grief, no wild lament be there.
To break tlie Sabbath of the holy air;
..But in their stead the silent breathing prayer
Of hearts still waiting for a rest like tliiue.
Oh, spirit redeemed ! forgive us, if henceforth.
With sweet and pure simlitudes of earth
We strive to keep thy pleasant memory gfeen.
Of love's inheritance a priceless part.
Which Fancy's self in reverent awe is seen
To paint, forgetful of the tricks of art, «
With pencil dipped alone in colors of the heart.
J. O. W'BITTIXE.
A CRUISE n r JAPAVESE WATERS.
BY CAPT. 8HERARD OSBORN.
Captain Osborn had the command of the steam
frigate Furious, which conveyed the Earl of El-gin
on his errand to the Emperor of Japan in
< 1858, and he describes in a verj pleasant man-ner
sights ond scenes not pennitt^ to English
«je8 for two centurie^ past.
Of the people and their dwellings, he gives the
following description ;—
"A J^prtncse noiKi cotuisis of n grouDd-floor
and top story.' The front and back of the base,
ment can be removed at pleasure, leavini^ it quite
open, through the premises, for air and iii^ht, ex-cept
where the posts supporting the first floor in-tervene.
Usually, the front panels only are re-moved
durinc; the daytime, and the buck panels,
formed of a light, graceful, wood framework, cov-ered
with translucent paper, uro left to scrcen the
cooking department and back promises. The
floor of the baseinvnt is raised about tlirce fcot
above the level of the ground, and s neatly boar-ded,
and then laid over with a series of stuffed
gru^s mats, on which the innmtcs walk, sit, food
und slfep. If it is u shop, the arrangements are
jiwt the tiamc, except that the buxes or drawers
contuiiiiiig the goods arc arranged on shelves on
t'iihtjr side, utid th« merchant und purchasers in
their sucks—for all shoos and boots are carcfully
put off on these irint«—sit on the floor lo discuHS
prices und qualities The story overhead serves
as a pinre of abode for their wives and laniilios,
uitd tliose Wti visited are in height, and ventila-tion,
and cleanliness, vastly superior to the ma-jority
of up.»tuir8 rooms in the liast.
'There was hardly a house in Nagasaki that
had not some sort of garden attached to it, and
all were well and laHtcfuliy kept; but the most
Btriltirig thing in this oity (und it was generally
observed by all of us in Japan) was that every
man, woman and child looked happy and conten-ted,
Every one met us with a friendly smile, or
a good-natured look of amazement, at either our
brilliant buttons, our shining boots, or some other
phenomenon exhibited in the gorgeous attire of
a British naval officer. The laboring portion of
the male population decidedly took little anxious
care for their raiment—a piece of cotton cloth, a
yard long and six inches wide, constitutiog their
general attire; and many of the children might
have just escaped from Eden, so innocent were
they of any dothing. Laughing and coaxing,
they came unhesitatingly up to us, begging, in
their natural y pretty way, for buttons, 'Cassi
button V 'Cassi button V It was irresistible,
and we gave all we could spare ; but what those
little urchetis were going to do with buttons, see-ing
they had neither rag nor ornament upon
them, was a puzzle to us. The grown-up women
^ere modestly attired in dark-colored garments,
their beautiful hair neatly dressed, and, but that
their nails were dyed, there was a general appear-ance
of beauty about them, combined with much
grace in the ^ures of the younger ones. The
Japanese officials and gentry were very well
dressed, and in tiieir attire displayed considerable
dandyism, according to their own fashion. Bat
in their dress, as well as in their houses, in Ja-pan,
we noticed the prevalence of sombre colors,
and the absence of that vulgar coloring and tinsel
work so common in CJhina. Here the out-door
dress of the ladies, and that of the poor girls at
the tea-^idens, and the wives of the tradespeople,
was quiet in color, however fine tlie texture might
be; and amongst the official dresses of the offi-cers,
black, dark blue, and black and white pat-terns,
were tlie most general. Their houses and
temples are likewise painted less gaudily than
elsewhere in the East, aad there was far leu
gilding about them. This peculiarity in Japan-ese
taste was one of the first impressions received
on our visiting Japan, and, like many first im-pressions,
proved to be correct."
In the bazaar at Decima our voyagers were
astonished by the proofsof their mechanical skill:
"At one stall we found microscopes, telescopes,
sun-dials, rules, scales, clocks, knives, spoons,
glass, beads, trinkets and mirrors—all of native
make upon European models—and the prices
were so ridiculously small, that even as the low-est
estimate of the value of labor it was a puzzle
how any profit could be realized upon the arti-cles.
The microscopes were very neat, and in-tended
to be carried in the pocket; ab imitation
morocco case opened, and contained within it a
small and not powerful lens, fixed in a metal
frame at a short distance from an upright pin,
on which the object for examination was to be
stuck, and the entire workmanship was highly
creditable. The telescopes were framed in stiff
paper cases, suffici'^ntly thick, and ingeniously
lackered to resemble leather over wood. The
glasses, though small, weae clear; the magnify-ing
power was not great, but it was a marvel to
s^e such an instrument sold for a shilling. We
saw another superior description of Japanese tel-escope,
six feet long when pulled out; it was
quite as powerful and as genuine as those 'real
Dollonds' which our naval outgtters are in the
habit of procuring for credulous parents when
equipping their sailor-children at sea-ports. The
price at Nagasaki is a dollar, or five shillings, but
at Portsmouth it is five pounds sterling. The
Japanese clocks exhibited for sale were beautiful
specimen of mechanism, and proved what we had
heard, that the people of this country are most
cunning in the fashioning of metals; one was
like those table clocks we see at home under
square glass covers, all the works being open to
scrutiny; it was six or eight inches high, and
about as broad, and it would have been difficult
to know it from one of Mr. Dent's best of a like
description."—Lundon Patriot.
BT7RIEI) ALIVE
It is a harrowing reflection that we must die;
but if that reflection be so bitter, who can fathom
the sensations of one who has been pronounced
dead, who has been laid in the tomb—and yet has
been buried aline ! That was my fate* Listen,
and ponder well.
I was the only daughter of proud, wealthy,
fashionable parents, resident in Boston; the
round of my life until J was twenty may easily
be imagined. It was a series of dissipation that
was crushing all the moral feelings and intellec-tual
powers. That momentous period of my ex-istence
is a blank. Let it be blotted out from
the MoovJ «r ^itttr, trnd imttiing gooci, pure, or
holy will disappear with it. I moan not that I
had committed any crime that is popularly stig-matized
as heinous, but that, like thousands sim-ilarly
situated, I had considered the "chief end"
of life to be the fashions—the frivolities of tech-nical
"high life." S'> I could get my jewels and
my satins, I cared not how the "inner jewels of
the soul," long buried in ruin, I was cluily bar-tering
a glorious eternity for an ignoble mortali-ty.
But on the even of my birthday—I was
then twenty—the hand of disease rested heavily
upon me. In three days 1 was struck dumb—
purulyztid in all my faculties—us though by the
hand of (ho Almighty. My mother entered the
room—looked at me—shrieked, and exclaitnod,
is dead !" The physician was called in—
examined my pulse, shook his head, and pronoun-ced
me "dead.^' 1 tried to speak—tried to strug-gle—
to groan ; but though burning with agony,
1 wuM not able to give vent to the pent-up fire.
While I lay in spcechless consciousness, I hoard
the carpcntcr coolly ask the measure of my oof-lin—
I heard tho coffin itself brought up stairs—
I hoard them open the rioor and enter the room
with it As I was placed in it, I again attempt-ed
10 speak, but could produce no sound, or ex-hibit
any sign of life. Tho memory of the past
was burniiig and blazing before me—the horrible
future was vividly painted on tho black canvass
of the mind. I again tried to struggle ;—it was
•in vain. But now came the heart-harrowing
scene. It was my burial. They begun to as-semble
in the room where I was conlined; All
was solemn silence, unbroken save by my moth-er's
sobs. Tho clergyman rose, and said, " l am
the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live." He then laid the ashes upon m j
body, and uttered the thrilling words of the lit-urgy
: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Alroightj
God, in his wise Providenee, to take out of this
world the sooi of our deceased sister, we there-fore
commit her body to the ground: earth to
earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; looking for
the general resurrection in the last day, and the
life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus
Christ."
Who can imagine my feelings at that hour!
It would require an archangel's power to describe
them. Oh, how inapplicable was the title ot'sis-ter,
at that so emn moment! But let me hasten.
After being carried through the streets, followed
by a splendid train, such as wealth could buy, I
was laid in the tomb of my ancestors—upon a
pile of mouldering coffins—to die. My mother
came, dropped the tear of agony, and retired.—
Others, as a matter of idle form, followed her ex-ample
;—but my poor mother's solitary tear was
all that wet my cheek. All had done—the door
was closed—the key turned—1 was alone. The
struggle was over. I must die. Yet at that
moment a calm—sweet and balmy as the atmos-phere
of paradise-^stole over my senses. I felt
not alone. My mother's tear!—it still lay wet
upon my cheeL It was her representative. Oh,
how I prized, at that fearful moment, that jewel
drop. It was to me the richest diamond of her
soul. It soothed me and—I slept!—ay, sweetly
slept, even in the very tomb; slept in companion-
TIMES.
• t' 1
ship with the dead ! But it 1 |l a sleep that
ooald not last forever. At first i^en I awoke I
imagined myself in my father's I ^ Then the
consciousness of where I was oa » mshing apon
me with accummalated horror. I made an ef-fort
to move—I did move—tljij {Mtralysis had
ition I Strug-of
death—
^ npotf the
| o the door,
tbdogh
" fin-
>»yed—1
iae. My
^toad. Phan-felf.
in my
side. In
ay screams
1, whowa^
ftr the recep-itely
given,
move
With the energy of des[
gled—the coffin toppl^ from i
fell—burst the lid, and rolled
damp, stone floor. I rose, ru
and tugged at the ponderous fa
Samson's strength rested in my
gers. I raved—I even cu
laughed the hideous laugh of t1
brain was like molten lead. I
toms of the imagination crowd
I saw the grinning and dusty
dead rise before me—hissing
themselves around my throat. I
When I awoke, I was on my
father's house, with my mother b]
my calm moments I ascertained
had arrested the attention of the
then preparing a neighboring toi
?ion of the dead. Notice was imi
and I was rescued from a living
ENGLISH WO]
The Athenaeum, reviewing C»iiel Fuller's
book, "Sparks from a Locomotivwpx Life and
Liberty in Europe," says:
Of the beauty of our English r pe the gallant
American never wearies. Of coa »,'he is writ-ing
for a New York audience; at fair readers
on this side of the great deep ill f like to hear
what a clever writer thinks it neci isary to insist
on with his countrywomen in suci Jl^icate «Mt-ter
of comparison Listen:
"I find it DO uncommon-things l England to
meet 'unprotected females' in s h a w s , and the
higher the social position of the l a l w . tha great-er
is their simplicity of dress ai 1 affability of
manner. So far as health, comfo , and fitness,
are concerned, the American ladie have much to
learn from the English, especially iO tiieir trav-elling
costume. We see no fim y or frippery
here in the railway carriage ; sat-ins
in the street are apt to excite mtber iMMn^
plimentary suspicions of the weare^. The 'Bal-moral'
is almost univerSiilly wo^; and even'
fiery-red stockings are by no meaM uncommon.
Long dresses are neve^ seen Mi of drawing-rooms,
and there they arc worn . ^ t h long and
loAT. The English women bavi^agnificently
exuberant busts; and they 'don't Qirs who knows
it.' Full dress, for dinner or fi^vthe theatre,
consists in 'low neck, and short strafies,' and this
is observed de rigueur ; while al^gtntlemen are
expected to apoaur in black dressMimts and nu-iftrpeacbable^
loves. At the Theatre Royal, in
Liverpool, the other evening, I was about enter-ing
the boxes, with a lady on my arm, who'wore
on the back of her head a little'love of a bonnet,'
about tho size of a japonica flower, when she was
arrested by an ushct, who politely informed her
that (he forbidden bonnet must be loft in the an"
to-room."
There is one drawback to his d e l i g h t , w o u ld
be, if tho Colont'l were a Chinaman, which we
nrc thankful he ii? not. The busts are divinely
beautiful—how about tho feet ? Look, ladies, to
your Balmorals:
" I have seen but one pretty foot in England.
I used to think the old nursery story about tho
•Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.' entirely fab-ulous
; but since I have seen the pedestals of
some of these lovely living female statues, I have
formed a more favoroble opinion of the veracity
of'Mother Goose.' But it is very evident that
a large foot is not considered a detriment to fe-male
beuuty in England ; as the ladies make no
eflbrt to diminish tho size of thoir fcot by wear-ing
pinching slippers. On the contrary, they
wear clumsy gaiters, with heavy soles, which
make thoir steps anything but fairy-like. And
in this thoy show their good sense. One-half of
the consumption cases among the American wo-men
are owing to wafer-doled shoes, which ren-der
walking both difficult and dangerous. And
so they sit pining in satin ohairs in thoir over-heated
rooms, sucking cough candy, and waiting
for the doctor, and his shadow the undertaker;
while these buxom English beauties are tramping
about in their water-proof boots, or darting
through lanes and parks in their saddles. To
appear delicate or lackadaisical is no part of an
English woman's ambition. Health and vigor
of body are considered of primary importance,
not only for comfort's sake, but as the most es-sential
qoftliflcatfons for 8ati8f»ctotiJjuy?d suc-cessfully
pel forming the duties of wives anTWo-"
thers. And they dress, and eat, and exercise,
accordingly. On calling on Lady ., the
other morning, one of tho most beautiful and ac-complished
ladies in London, I found her dressed
in a plain, purple-colored woolen robe, made of
cheap and coarse material, and yet so tastefully
fitting her fine figure, that I was struck with the
elegance and comfort of the ememhU. An ultra
fashionable belle of the Fifth Avenue would
hardly 'come down' to her visiter in so simple a
costume; or if she did, it would be with a con-fusion
of apoiogetic words and blushes.'
RHETOBICAL POETEY.—If you would have an
idea of the ocean in a storm, just imagine four
thousand hills and four thousand mountains, all
drunk, chasing one another over newly-plowed
ground, with lots of caverns for them to step into
now and then.
How TO COMPOSB SERMONS.—A Welsh curate,
being asked how he managed to preach sermons
so far above his own powers of composition, re-plied,
" I have a volume of sermons by one Arch-bishop
Tillotson, which I translate into Welsh
and aftervvards translate into English, after which
the Archbishop himself would not know his own
coropositions."
A STROKO MAN.—Dr. George B. Winship, of
Roxbury, continues to increase in strength, and
now lifts with his hands, nnaided by any straps
or bands except those given to him by the Al-mighty,
ten hundred and thirty-two pounds!—
This I have seen him do, with ns much apparent
ease as an ordinary man can lift three hundred
and fifty pounds! This extraordinary young
man only weighs one hundred and forty-two
pounds, and is but twenty-five years old. If he
keeps increasing his strength as he has the past
year, by the time he is thirty years old he will
be indeed a 'Samson.' He has delivered his lec-ture
in Portland, Me., in Amherst, Mass., in
Worcester, and in various other towns and cities
to overflowing audiences, and will repeat it in
Albany, Troy and Buffalo, and has invitations
from more towns and cities than he can possibly
respond to for mouths to come. He hopes, how-ever,
to be able to deliver the lectnre and give il-lustrations
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and some of the other southern cities, during the
coming winter. This young man is not only
physically strong, but has an intellect equal to
his extraordinary muscular powers. He is a
giant in more ways than one.—JV. Y. Paper,
NO. 81.
ANOTHER MEAN HAN.
In a late number of The Independent we took
occasion to advise our readers that a certain mean
man was abroad- We gav# his leading charac-teristics,
so that he could be identified. Since
then we have beard of another of the same sort.
Look out for him. If yon meet him, give him a
wide berth. The intimate friends he has left
thns describe him :
He is a- man who believes Jus pairtmage is
worth more to any cause than his money.
He never gives a dollar to any object without
leaving the impression that you are under ever-lasting
obligations to him particularly.
He believes that when he dies the sun and
moon will stand atiU, and all the worl4.wiH
HOW LITTLE PILLS ARE MADS.
A New York correspondent gives an interest-ing
account'of a recent visit to Prof. Humphreys*
Homeopathic establishment, in Broadway. He
says:—"I found the Professor in bis study and
consultation room, busy attending calls of bis pa-tients
and answering his extensive correspondence.
Upon his table were letters from patients in al-most
every State in tne Union, who write him a
description of their cases, and receive their medi-cines
by mail. I judge from the amount of cor-respondence
that this is becoming,^ yer^ fitvprite
mode of treatment ' ^
lire, W declines to favor his family with similar
blessings.
He is "always on the off side," and would
make you believe if he could that the minority
should always govern.
He will stop a newspaper, "short meter," if it
expresses any sentiments except his own.
As a business man he was once known to rec-ommend
to his neighbor as worthy of credit a man
in doubtful or failing circumstance, in order to
Jocure a debt due himself. (For that he ought
to have gone to Sing Sing.)
He believes every story that is told of others
to their injury, and never fails to give it currency
—right straight o f .
He always has feith ns far as he can see—be-yond
that he won't pin his belief on the sleeves
of anybody—not he.
He don't always keep his promises in money
matters—thinking that the cash in his hands will
enable him to "make a turn" by which a "clear
gain" of a few dollars can be made for—himself.
He once let his note go to protest because the
•'rate of exchange" on New York was " more
than he could stand." He fell by that, some
say—cormderahly.
He once allowed, we find on examination, his
subscription to the Independent to run on for
several months, and then very politely requested
us to take his "two dollars in fuli," and "say
nothing" about the extra fifly cents, as he was
one of our "oldest subscribers." We have made
a mark against his name to "watch him" in fu-ture.
Served him right.
He is a very peculiar man indeed. Put your
finger on him, at any time, and—he ain't there.
He "never remembers." His bond is far better,
ultimately, than his word. He needs looking af-ter
constantly. His friends are discouraged about
him, and say he is a "hard case." Our advice
is—hold on to him. There ia alwajra hope as
P. S.—We have information from a reliable
source that the fellow we refer to has been in the
habit, for several years, of "stealing his preach-ing,"
very much to the mortification of all his
friends. They were greatly elated, however,
some little time since, by the announcement fron
him that he had mado up his mind to "settle
down" and fnke a pew. He did so, and—would
yon believe it ?—not a cent by tho hardest squeez-ing
can be got out of him. That caps the cli-max.—
iV. Y. Independent.
TIIR BR.ST FUKL.—Wood is the healthiest, be'
cause it contains a largo amount of oxygen ; coal
has none, hence, in burning it, the oxygen neces-sary
for its coiiibustinn must be supplied from the
air of the room, leaving it 'closely oppressive.
A coal fire will trn out unless it has a constant
and large supply ol air, while wood, with com-paratively
little, having a largo supply within it-self,
turns to 'live' coals. Close-grained heavy
woods, like hickory and oak, give out tho most
heat; while pine and poplar, beingopen-grained,
heat up the quickest. The value of fuel as a
heating material, is determined by the amount of
water which a pound will raise to a given tem-perature;
thus, one pound of wood will convert
forty pounds of ice to boiling water, while a
pound of coal will thus heat near eighty pounds
of ice cold water; hence, pound for pound, coal
is ns good again for mere heating purposes, and
wood is as good again as peat, which is the pro-duct
of sedges, seeds, rushes, mosses, &c.
But, if a ton of coal, that is, twenty-eight bush-els,
or twenty-two hundred and forty pounds, cost
five dollars, it is about equal to the best wood at
two dollars and a quarter a cord. Coal, at
twelve dollars and a half a ton, is as cheap as
wood at five dollars an^a half a cord. It would
be more equitable, if wood was dry, to sell it by
the pound; Such is the custom in France. For,
' ITe^ting' sleeping apartments, wood should be
used.
prepctr
Mlf, which, together with his patients and' other
items necessarily belonged to his extensive busi-ness,
must require no small amount of energy
and capacity.
"The little pills themselves now so generally
known, are made of proper proportions of sugar
and starch, and only become medicated after the
liquid medicines are poured upon them and they
become thoroughly saturated with it. To com-mence
making the pills, the finest dusted sugar is
sifted into a large deep pan, which is kept at an
uniform moderate temperature, and the mass is
worked under the hand while the new material
in fluid form is constantly added to it, until by
degrees the single pellets, by attrition, attain the
size necessary for use, when they are sifted into
appropriate grades, and thoroughly dried prepar-atory
to being medicated. This is done by plac-ing
them in large bottles, and the liquid medicine
is poured over them until they are fully satura-ted,
when they are dried and placed in the hands
of careful assistants, placed in boxes and cases,
properly labeled and wrapped for the market.—
Some idea may be formed of the popularity of
his Specific Remedies when we learn that at his
establishment there are prepared for the market,
each week, from fifty to one hundred gross of
boxes, and about half that number of vials, mak-ing
an aggregate of not less than one million do-ses
of m^icine per week. Immense as this sup-ply
is, the demand is constantly increasing."
A NUOOET.
J . & J . Stuart & Co., the eminent and very
popular bankers, at 33 Nassau Street, have among
their " availables " a piece of gold weighing about
2,2514 ounce?, 915 fine, value $42,581 7L
This hit they intend to send to their branch
house in Manchester, England. Such nuggets
as this from his American cousin's domains are
what serve to keep Johnny Bull in condition; and
if it were not for these, what with wars and ru-mors
of wars, contentions without and contentions
within, poor Johnny would fare badly.
Our respected ancestor is getting to be in very
much the same position as a poor farmer with a
very large farm, that costs more for cultivating
than the crops are worth ; and then he ban such
bad nciehbors, his fencing expenses are enormous.
To bo TOre, bis neighbor Napoleon has thrown
down no fences yet, but he keeps shaking his horns
and pawing with his hoofs furiou.ily (no compari-son
to the gent in black intended,) and Johnny
don't know what may happen, so he braces up
Mtrung. Then those Chinamen won't be satibfied
to take thing.<j us Johnny wants thcin to, and
there is trouble. And his Indian friends are
such as poko their heads through the fence nt
every chance they can get, and away goes a rail
or a post. And those Irish children are contin-ually
ransacking hid orchards, although he has
done everything in thu world ho could to stop
them ; lie has scoldcd, and threatened, and whip-pod,
but all to no purpose. Thuy are like some
other children wo have seen, who take their
scoldings and whippings when they must, but
are not to be pj^t down uureasonably.
Now, Johnny, we can send you more nuggets,
if you want; but when a farm becomes so heav-ily
mortgaged as yours is, the interest counts up
fast, and it is very doubtful if it can ever be clear-ed
off. Our advice would be that }ou try to
save the homestead by disposing of the out-lands.
Let the Chinamen take care of themselves.—
Never mind the Indies. Lot the Irish alone, and
they won't trouble you. Canada and Jonathan
can make a bargain and go at work on shares.—
Take care of yourself, John, and remember tho
old adage, " Out of debt, out of danger."—Life
Illustrated.
BRISGBT was hired as a 'help' In a female
boarding school, and was told to ring the first
bell at half past five in the morning. At six
o'clock the pupils were required to attend pray-ers,
but for several mornings after Bridget com-menced
her labors many were unustially tardy,
giving as an excuse that ' they did not hear the
rising bell. Bridget was questioneJ by the head
of the institution as to the manner in which she
discharged her duty of ringing the bell. 'Shure,
marm,' she replied, never rings it very hard
for fear I might Wake the young ladies!'
RBV. ROBEBT HALL.—It is said that Rev. Rob-ert
Hall, in the earlier part of his ministry, was
easily irritated; but if he lost his tenoper be was
deeply humbled, and would often acknowledge
himself to blame. On oue of these occasions,
when a discussion had become warm, he sudden-ly
closed the debate, quitted bis seat, and retiring
to a remote part of the room, was overheard, by
a lady who was just entering, to ejaculate, with
deep feeling, "Lamb of God, Lamb of God, calm
my perturb^ spirit!"
Professor B , the eminent electrician, was
traveling in the cars, when a man came up and
asked for his fare. "Who are you ?" said B — .
" I ? My name is Wood, and I am the conduc-tor."
''Oh," said the professor, very quietly,
"that can't be, for toood is » non-eonductor.

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NEW BRIT
VOL. III. NEW BRITAIN, CONN., SATURD lY, NOVEMBER 26, 1859.
T H E
SISW mWEMJm ICTEES ;
A OONNKUANON or THE
I S R O I ^ T H I could get my jewels and
my satins, I cared not how the "inner jewels of
the soul," long buried in ruin, I was cluily bar-tering
a glorious eternity for an ignoble mortali-ty.
But on the even of my birthday—I was
then twenty—the hand of disease rested heavily
upon me. In three days 1 was struck dumb—
purulyztid in all my faculties—us though by the
hand of (ho Almighty. My mother entered the
room—looked at me—shrieked, and exclaitnod,
is dead !" The physician was called in—
examined my pulse, shook his head, and pronoun-ced
me "dead.^' 1 tried to speak—tried to strug-gle—
to groan ; but though burning with agony,
1 wuM not able to give vent to the pent-up fire.
While I lay in spcechless consciousness, I hoard
the carpcntcr coolly ask the measure of my oof-lin—
I heard tho coffin itself brought up stairs—
I hoard them open the rioor and enter the room
with it As I was placed in it, I again attempt-ed
10 speak, but could produce no sound, or ex-hibit
any sign of life. Tho memory of the past
was burniiig and blazing before me—the horrible
future was vividly painted on tho black canvass
of the mind. I again tried to struggle ;—it was
•in vain. But now came the heart-harrowing
scene. It was my burial. They begun to as-semble
in the room where I was conlined; All
was solemn silence, unbroken save by my moth-er's
sobs. Tho clergyman rose, and said, " l am
the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet
shall he live." He then laid the ashes upon m j
body, and uttered the thrilling words of the lit-urgy
: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Alroightj
God, in his wise Providenee, to take out of this
world the sooi of our deceased sister, we there-fore
commit her body to the ground: earth to
earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; looking for
the general resurrection in the last day, and the
life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus
Christ."
Who can imagine my feelings at that hour!
It would require an archangel's power to describe
them. Oh, how inapplicable was the title ot'sis-ter,
at that so emn moment! But let me hasten.
After being carried through the streets, followed
by a splendid train, such as wealth could buy, I
was laid in the tomb of my ancestors—upon a
pile of mouldering coffins—to die. My mother
came, dropped the tear of agony, and retired.—
Others, as a matter of idle form, followed her ex-ample
;—but my poor mother's solitary tear was
all that wet my cheek. All had done—the door
was closed—the key turned—1 was alone. The
struggle was over. I must die. Yet at that
moment a calm—sweet and balmy as the atmos-phere
of paradise-^stole over my senses. I felt
not alone. My mother's tear!—it still lay wet
upon my cheeL It was her representative. Oh,
how I prized, at that fearful moment, that jewel
drop. It was to me the richest diamond of her
soul. It soothed me and—I slept!—ay, sweetly
slept, even in the very tomb; slept in companion-
TIMES.
• t' 1
ship with the dead ! But it 1 |l a sleep that
ooald not last forever. At first i^en I awoke I
imagined myself in my father's I ^ Then the
consciousness of where I was oa » mshing apon
me with accummalated horror. I made an ef-fort
to move—I did move—tljij {Mtralysis had
ition I Strug-of
death—
^ npotf the
| o the door,
tbdogh
" fin-
>»yed—1
iae. My
^toad. Phan-felf.
in my
side. In
ay screams
1, whowa^
ftr the recep-itely
given,
move
With the energy of des[
gled—the coffin toppl^ from i
fell—burst the lid, and rolled
damp, stone floor. I rose, ru
and tugged at the ponderous fa
Samson's strength rested in my
gers. I raved—I even cu
laughed the hideous laugh of t1
brain was like molten lead. I
toms of the imagination crowd
I saw the grinning and dusty
dead rise before me—hissing
themselves around my throat. I
When I awoke, I was on my
father's house, with my mother b]
my calm moments I ascertained
had arrested the attention of the
then preparing a neighboring toi
?ion of the dead. Notice was imi
and I was rescued from a living
ENGLISH WO]
The Athenaeum, reviewing C»iiel Fuller's
book, "Sparks from a Locomotivwpx Life and
Liberty in Europe," says:
Of the beauty of our English r pe the gallant
American never wearies. Of coa »,'he is writ-ing
for a New York audience; at fair readers
on this side of the great deep ill f like to hear
what a clever writer thinks it neci isary to insist
on with his countrywomen in suci Jl^icate «Mt-ter
of comparison Listen:
"I find it DO uncommon-things l England to
meet 'unprotected females' in s h a w s , and the
higher the social position of the l a l w . tha great-er
is their simplicity of dress ai 1 affability of
manner. So far as health, comfo , and fitness,
are concerned, the American ladie have much to
learn from the English, especially iO tiieir trav-elling
costume. We see no fim y or frippery
here in the railway carriage ; sat-ins
in the street are apt to excite mtber iMMn^
plimentary suspicions of the weare^. The 'Bal-moral'
is almost univerSiilly wo^; and even'
fiery-red stockings are by no meaM uncommon.
Long dresses are neve^ seen Mi of drawing-rooms,
and there they arc worn . ^ t h long and
loAT. The English women bavi^agnificently
exuberant busts; and they 'don't Qirs who knows
it.' Full dress, for dinner or fi^vthe theatre,
consists in 'low neck, and short strafies,' and this
is observed de rigueur ; while al^gtntlemen are
expected to apoaur in black dressMimts and nu-iftrpeacbable^
loves. At the Theatre Royal, in
Liverpool, the other evening, I was about enter-ing
the boxes, with a lady on my arm, who'wore
on the back of her head a little'love of a bonnet,'
about tho size of a japonica flower, when she was
arrested by an ushct, who politely informed her
that (he forbidden bonnet must be loft in the an"
to-room."
There is one drawback to his d e l i g h t , w o u ld
be, if tho Colont'l were a Chinaman, which we
nrc thankful he ii? not. The busts are divinely
beautiful—how about tho feet ? Look, ladies, to
your Balmorals:
" I have seen but one pretty foot in England.
I used to think the old nursery story about tho
•Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.' entirely fab-ulous
; but since I have seen the pedestals of
some of these lovely living female statues, I have
formed a more favoroble opinion of the veracity
of'Mother Goose.' But it is very evident that
a large foot is not considered a detriment to fe-male
beuuty in England ; as the ladies make no
eflbrt to diminish tho size of thoir fcot by wear-ing
pinching slippers. On the contrary, they
wear clumsy gaiters, with heavy soles, which
make thoir steps anything but fairy-like. And
in this thoy show their good sense. One-half of
the consumption cases among the American wo-men
are owing to wafer-doled shoes, which ren-der
walking both difficult and dangerous. And
so they sit pining in satin ohairs in thoir over-heated
rooms, sucking cough candy, and waiting
for the doctor, and his shadow the undertaker;
while these buxom English beauties are tramping
about in their water-proof boots, or darting
through lanes and parks in their saddles. To
appear delicate or lackadaisical is no part of an
English woman's ambition. Health and vigor
of body are considered of primary importance,
not only for comfort's sake, but as the most es-sential
qoftliflcatfons for 8ati8f»ctotiJjuy?d suc-cessfully
pel forming the duties of wives anTWo-"
thers. And they dress, and eat, and exercise,
accordingly. On calling on Lady ., the
other morning, one of tho most beautiful and ac-complished
ladies in London, I found her dressed
in a plain, purple-colored woolen robe, made of
cheap and coarse material, and yet so tastefully
fitting her fine figure, that I was struck with the
elegance and comfort of the ememhU. An ultra
fashionable belle of the Fifth Avenue would
hardly 'come down' to her visiter in so simple a
costume; or if she did, it would be with a con-fusion
of apoiogetic words and blushes.'
RHETOBICAL POETEY.—If you would have an
idea of the ocean in a storm, just imagine four
thousand hills and four thousand mountains, all
drunk, chasing one another over newly-plowed
ground, with lots of caverns for them to step into
now and then.
How TO COMPOSB SERMONS.—A Welsh curate,
being asked how he managed to preach sermons
so far above his own powers of composition, re-plied,
" I have a volume of sermons by one Arch-bishop
Tillotson, which I translate into Welsh
and aftervvards translate into English, after which
the Archbishop himself would not know his own
coropositions."
A STROKO MAN.—Dr. George B. Winship, of
Roxbury, continues to increase in strength, and
now lifts with his hands, nnaided by any straps
or bands except those given to him by the Al-mighty,
ten hundred and thirty-two pounds!—
This I have seen him do, with ns much apparent
ease as an ordinary man can lift three hundred
and fifty pounds! This extraordinary young
man only weighs one hundred and forty-two
pounds, and is but twenty-five years old. If he
keeps increasing his strength as he has the past
year, by the time he is thirty years old he will
be indeed a 'Samson.' He has delivered his lec-ture
in Portland, Me., in Amherst, Mass., in
Worcester, and in various other towns and cities
to overflowing audiences, and will repeat it in
Albany, Troy and Buffalo, and has invitations
from more towns and cities than he can possibly
respond to for mouths to come. He hopes, how-ever,
to be able to deliver the lectnre and give il-lustrations
in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and some of the other southern cities, during the
coming winter. This young man is not only
physically strong, but has an intellect equal to
his extraordinary muscular powers. He is a
giant in more ways than one.—JV. Y. Paper,
NO. 81.
ANOTHER MEAN HAN.
In a late number of The Independent we took
occasion to advise our readers that a certain mean
man was abroad- We gav# his leading charac-teristics,
so that he could be identified. Since
then we have beard of another of the same sort.
Look out for him. If yon meet him, give him a
wide berth. The intimate friends he has left
thns describe him :
He is a- man who believes Jus pairtmage is
worth more to any cause than his money.
He never gives a dollar to any object without
leaving the impression that you are under ever-lasting
obligations to him particularly.
He believes that when he dies the sun and
moon will stand atiU, and all the worl4.wiH
HOW LITTLE PILLS ARE MADS.
A New York correspondent gives an interest-ing
account'of a recent visit to Prof. Humphreys*
Homeopathic establishment, in Broadway. He
says:—"I found the Professor in bis study and
consultation room, busy attending calls of bis pa-tients
and answering his extensive correspondence.
Upon his table were letters from patients in al-most
every State in tne Union, who write him a
description of their cases, and receive their medi-cines
by mail. I judge from the amount of cor-respondence
that this is becoming,^ yer^ fitvprite
mode of treatment ' ^
lire, W declines to favor his family with similar
blessings.
He is "always on the off side," and would
make you believe if he could that the minority
should always govern.
He will stop a newspaper, "short meter," if it
expresses any sentiments except his own.
As a business man he was once known to rec-ommend
to his neighbor as worthy of credit a man
in doubtful or failing circumstance, in order to
Jocure a debt due himself. (For that he ought
to have gone to Sing Sing.)
He believes every story that is told of others
to their injury, and never fails to give it currency
—right straight o f .
He always has feith ns far as he can see—be-yond
that he won't pin his belief on the sleeves
of anybody—not he.
He don't always keep his promises in money
matters—thinking that the cash in his hands will
enable him to "make a turn" by which a "clear
gain" of a few dollars can be made for—himself.
He once let his note go to protest because the
•'rate of exchange" on New York was " more
than he could stand." He fell by that, some
say—cormderahly.
He once allowed, we find on examination, his
subscription to the Independent to run on for
several months, and then very politely requested
us to take his "two dollars in fuli," and "say
nothing" about the extra fifly cents, as he was
one of our "oldest subscribers." We have made
a mark against his name to "watch him" in fu-ture.
Served him right.
He is a very peculiar man indeed. Put your
finger on him, at any time, and—he ain't there.
He "never remembers." His bond is far better,
ultimately, than his word. He needs looking af-ter
constantly. His friends are discouraged about
him, and say he is a "hard case." Our advice
is—hold on to him. There ia alwajra hope as
P. S.—We have information from a reliable
source that the fellow we refer to has been in the
habit, for several years, of "stealing his preach-ing,"
very much to the mortification of all his
friends. They were greatly elated, however,
some little time since, by the announcement fron
him that he had mado up his mind to "settle
down" and fnke a pew. He did so, and—would
yon believe it ?—not a cent by tho hardest squeez-ing
can be got out of him. That caps the cli-max.—
iV. Y. Independent.
TIIR BR.ST FUKL.—Wood is the healthiest, be'
cause it contains a largo amount of oxygen ; coal
has none, hence, in burning it, the oxygen neces-sary
for its coiiibustinn must be supplied from the
air of the room, leaving it 'closely oppressive.
A coal fire will trn out unless it has a constant
and large supply ol air, while wood, with com-paratively
little, having a largo supply within it-self,
turns to 'live' coals. Close-grained heavy
woods, like hickory and oak, give out tho most
heat; while pine and poplar, beingopen-grained,
heat up the quickest. The value of fuel as a
heating material, is determined by the amount of
water which a pound will raise to a given tem-perature;
thus, one pound of wood will convert
forty pounds of ice to boiling water, while a
pound of coal will thus heat near eighty pounds
of ice cold water; hence, pound for pound, coal
is ns good again for mere heating purposes, and
wood is as good again as peat, which is the pro-duct
of sedges, seeds, rushes, mosses, &c.
But, if a ton of coal, that is, twenty-eight bush-els,
or twenty-two hundred and forty pounds, cost
five dollars, it is about equal to the best wood at
two dollars and a quarter a cord. Coal, at
twelve dollars and a half a ton, is as cheap as
wood at five dollars an^a half a cord. It would
be more equitable, if wood was dry, to sell it by
the pound; Such is the custom in France. For,
' ITe^ting' sleeping apartments, wood should be
used.
prepctr
Mlf, which, together with his patients and' other
items necessarily belonged to his extensive busi-ness,
must require no small amount of energy
and capacity.
"The little pills themselves now so generally
known, are made of proper proportions of sugar
and starch, and only become medicated after the
liquid medicines are poured upon them and they
become thoroughly saturated with it. To com-mence
making the pills, the finest dusted sugar is
sifted into a large deep pan, which is kept at an
uniform moderate temperature, and the mass is
worked under the hand while the new material
in fluid form is constantly added to it, until by
degrees the single pellets, by attrition, attain the
size necessary for use, when they are sifted into
appropriate grades, and thoroughly dried prepar-atory
to being medicated. This is done by plac-ing
them in large bottles, and the liquid medicine
is poured over them until they are fully satura-ted,
when they are dried and placed in the hands
of careful assistants, placed in boxes and cases,
properly labeled and wrapped for the market.—
Some idea may be formed of the popularity of
his Specific Remedies when we learn that at his
establishment there are prepared for the market,
each week, from fifty to one hundred gross of
boxes, and about half that number of vials, mak-ing
an aggregate of not less than one million do-ses
of m^icine per week. Immense as this sup-ply
is, the demand is constantly increasing."
A NUOOET.
J . & J . Stuart & Co., the eminent and very
popular bankers, at 33 Nassau Street, have among
their " availables " a piece of gold weighing about
2,2514 ounce?, 915 fine, value $42,581 7L
This hit they intend to send to their branch
house in Manchester, England. Such nuggets
as this from his American cousin's domains are
what serve to keep Johnny Bull in condition; and
if it were not for these, what with wars and ru-mors
of wars, contentions without and contentions
within, poor Johnny would fare badly.
Our respected ancestor is getting to be in very
much the same position as a poor farmer with a
very large farm, that costs more for cultivating
than the crops are worth ; and then he ban such
bad nciehbors, his fencing expenses are enormous.
To bo TOre, bis neighbor Napoleon has thrown
down no fences yet, but he keeps shaking his horns
and pawing with his hoofs furiou.ily (no compari-son
to the gent in black intended,) and Johnny
don't know what may happen, so he braces up
Mtrung. Then those Chinamen won't be satibfied
to take thing.